LEADER 05367nam 22007574a 450 001 9910811664503321 005 20240516002013.0 010 $a0-19-988304-1 010 $a1-282-23522-2 010 $a0-19-803674-4 010 $a9786612235221 010 $a9786610914524 010 $a1-280-91452-1 010 $a0-19-516223-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000300058 035 $a(EBL)3053377 035 $a(OCoLC)922954251 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000086261 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11118973 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000086261 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10026342 035 $a(PQKB)11725774 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075066 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053377 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3053377 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288456 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL91452 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7037190 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7037190 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000300058 100 $a20040106d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDesert Christians $ean introduction to the literature of early monasticism /$fWilliam Harmless 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (513 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-516222-6 311 $a0-19-983564-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; A Note on the Notes and Bibliographies; Part I. The World of Early Monasticism; 1. Roman Egypt; Alexandria; The Gift of the Nile; Early Egyptian Christianity; Monasticism in Egypt: Leaders, Writers, and Texts; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 1.1. Papyrus: Women and Monasticism; 2. Patriarchs, Councils, and Controversies: 300-451; Alexander, Arius, and the Council of Nicaea; Athanasius; Theophilus; Cyril and the Council of Ephesus; Dioscorus and the Council of Chalcedon; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 2.1. The Creed of the Council of Nicaea (325) 327 $aAppendix 2.2. Texts from the Council of Ephesus (431)Appendix 2.3. The Definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451); Part II. Antony and Pachomius; 3. The Life of Antony: Text and Context; The ""Wrath"" of 356; A Physician For Egypt; Audience, Sources, and Genre; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 3.1. The Letters of Saint Antony; Appendix 3.2. The Letters of Ammonas; 4. The Life of Antony: Themes and Influence; Christ's Victory over Demons; God Enfleshed, Humanity Deified; The Politics of Orthodoxy; Antony in the Latin West; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 4.1. Jerome, The Life of Paul of Thebes 327 $aAppendix 4.2. The Many Faces of AntonyAppendix 4.3. Did Athanasius Really Write the Life of Antony?; 5. Pachomius; The Sources; Early Career; The Koinonia; Later Career; Theodore and Horsiesius; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 5.1. The Versions of the Life of Pachomius; Appendix 5.2. The Letters of Pachomius; Appendix 5.3. The Letter of Ammon; Appendix 5.4. The Testament of Horsiesius; Appendix 5.5. Did the Nag Hammadi Library Belong to the Pachomians?; Part III. The Desert Fathers; 6. The Apophthegmata Patrum: Text and Context; Abba Antony; The Collections: Alphabetical and Systematic 327 $a""Abba, Give Me a Word""Scetis; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 6.1. The Many Languages of Desert Literature; Appendix 6.2. Macarius the Egyptian, Letter to the Sons of God; 7. The Apophthegmata Patrum: Portraits; Abba Macarius the Egyptian; Abba John the Little; Abba Moses the Ethiopian; Abba Poemen; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 7.1. The Famous and Not-So-Famous of the Alphabetical Collection; Appendix 7.2. The Virtues of Abba Macarius the Great; Appendix 7.3. The ""Tree of Obedience""; Appendix 7.4. Zacharius of Sakha?, Encomium on the Life of John the Little 327 $a8. The Apophthegmata Patrum: ThemesHesychia; The Manifestation of Thoughts; The Demon of Lust; Anger; Blessed Are the Sorrowful; Visions; Scripture; From Oral Word to Written Text; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 8.1. The Systematic Collections of the Apophthegmata Patrum; Appendix 8.2. Paul of Tamma, On the Cell; Appendix 8.3. Concerning Thoughts (Peri Logismon); Appendix 8.4. Isaiah of Scetis, Asceticon; Appendix 8.5. The Ethiopic Collectio Monastica; 9. The Histories; Nitria; Kellia; Other Sites; Portraits: The Lausiac History; Signs and Wonders: The History of the Monks in Egypt; Notes 327 $aBibliography 330 8 $aIn this introduction to early Christian monastic literature from Egypt and beyond, the author introduces major figures and literary texts and provides an up-to-date survey of current questions and scholarship in the field. 606 $aDesert Fathers 606 $aChristian literature, Early$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMonastic and religious life$xHistory$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 615 0$aDesert Fathers. 615 0$aChristian literature, Early$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMonastic and religious life$xHistory 676 $a271/.009/015 700 $aHarmless$b William$f1953-$0732917 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811664503321 996 $aDesert Christians$94096802 997 $aUNINA